My Husband and I Divorced After 36 Years — At His Funeral, His Drunk Father Said, “You Don’t Even Know What He Did for You, Do You?”

both been confirmed, with the same pastor who had watched us grow up, surrounded by neighbors who had been predicting this day since we were children.

The early years were everything a young marriage should be. We rented a tiny apartment above the hardware store downtown, where the heat barely worked and the neighbors upstairs practiced drums at midnight.continue reading …